Dick Falkenbury grew up and spent most of his life in the Roosevelt area of Seattle. He began driving cabs in 1978, later becoming a tour driver and tour bus driver in 1992. In 1996, having worked in many liberal political campaigns in the Seattle area, Falkenbury wrote and led an initiative effort to build a monorail throughout Seattle.

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In all the noise over the Boeing versus union mess, there are some key things which people are failing to understand. I used to drive tourists up to Everett so they could tour the Boeing plant. I used to explain that Boeing is not like other companies. “If I am working for a company which […]
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First, a correction. My entire life has been a mistake, but that’s not the correction. A couple of days ago I posted a rant about local sports radio trying to make something funny about Rick Incognito of the Miami Dolphins bullying Johnathon Martin, a teammate. I had the wrong name of the victim. My best friend […]
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I get it: sports radio is vacuous. Sports radio is mindless. They repeat the same things ad nauseum. OK, I get it. But people on KIRO 710, stop from trying to make something funny about the Incognito/Williams affair. Please refrain (look it up, Monson) from making analogies between Mack Strong and Rick Incognito. Rick Incognito […]
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There is a report out that our government is thinking about changing the rules to allow Chinese companies to process the chicken we eat. The plan would be to fly live chickens to China, slaughter, defeather and cut them up, and then fly the fowl back here. A Chinese company made drywall for us that […]
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One story and one truth. The story first. Someone once told me that he heard about a mob hit. A guy somehow found out that some guys wanted the boss wiped out. The guy was a civilian; no connection to the mob, no criminal record. He went to the wiseguys and asked “How much for whacking […]
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The teaparty branch of the Reoublican party is like the prize fighter who is pummeled for fifteen rounds, knocked out in the last and counted out–and is now demanding that ‘we go a few more rounds’. —————————————————————————————————– I suggested here that Governor Jay Inslee may have passed away, since he was nowhere to be found […]
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The Oct 6, 2013 ‘Pacific NW’ in the Seattle Times told us what to do in case of an earthquake. All wrong. Almost everything they suggested was either wrong, stupid or both. Some of it was wierd–and wrong: ‘Know several ways to the police station’. What am I going to be doing, bringing in criminals? […]
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The Republicans–by which I mean ‘The Teaparty Republicans because that is who is in charge and what they have become–remind me of the Know Nothing Party of the 1850′s. The Know Nothings were much like the Teaparty in that they saw themselves as conservative. They were anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic and generally pretty ignorant. (They got their […]
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There is another way out of the shut-down/default mess: The House Democrats could promise to support Speaker Boehner if he allows a straight yes/no vote on a clean Continuing Resolution. Boehner allows a vote on the clean funding bill and it passes. The government is funded. The debt ceiling is raised. Crisis is over. The […]
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The National Security Agency is looking more and more like the tenth grader caught at 4:00 AM trying to climb in through his bedroom window. With every denial, comes an admission. First, they didn’t listen in to phone conversations (“OK, a couple of our people listened into a few phone calls of their spouses, lovers […]
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